11367534

Systems and Methods for Contagious Disease Risk Management

PublishedJune 21, 2022
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Technical Abstract

Patent Claims
24 claims

Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.

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1. A building system of a building, the building system comprising one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: receive occupancy data of a plurality of occupants from an occupant tracking system, the occupancy data indicating locations of the plurality of occupants within a building space of the building; determine, based on the occupancy data, whether one or more occupants of the plurality of occupants have violated a social distancing policy that reduces a spread of an infectious disease within the building based on the locations of at least two of the plurality of occupants, the social distancing policy based on one or more characteristics of the building space; and perform one or more operations to improve compliance with the social distancing policy within the building in response to a determination that the one or more occupants have violated the social distancing policy by: adding a social distancing alert to a list of active alerts in the building; and providing the list of active alerts to a system.

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2. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more operations include: generating a notification that includes an indication of the social distancing policy being violated; and sending the notification to user devices associated with the one or more occupants.

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3. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more occupants include a first occupant and a second occupant; wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to: record an encounter between the first occupant and the second occupant with a plurality of encounters between occupants of the plurality of occupants; receive an indication of one or more infected occupants of the plurality of occupants that are infected with the infectious disease; and analyze the plurality of encounters to identify one or more potentially infected occupants that have come into contact with the one or more infected occupants.

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4. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to: generate a space score for one space of a plurality of spaces of the building based on one or more parameters, the one or more parameters indicating a number of social distancing violations that have occurred within the one space; and cause a user device to display the space score for the one space.

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5. The building system of claim 1 , wherein providing the list of active alerts to a system comprises causing a building monitoring interface to display the list of active social distancing alerts.

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6. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more occupants include a first occupant and a second occupant; wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to: record a social distancing violation between the first occupant and the second occupant with a plurality of social distancing violations between the plurality of occupants; generate one or more trends that trend a plurality of social distancing violations over time; and cause a user interface to display the one or more trends.

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7. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to: determine a number of occupants in each space of a plurality of spaces of the building based on the occupancy data; determine whether the number of occupants in each space of the plurality of spaces is greater than or less than one or more levels, wherein the one or more levels indicate underutilization of a space, normal utilization of a space, or over utilization of a space based on a size of each space of the plurality of spaces; and generate a building layout interface that indicates the plurality of spaces and whether each space is underutilized, over utilized, or is normally utilization.

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8. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more occupants include a first occupant and a second occupant; wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to: record a social distancing violation between the first occupant and the second occupant with a plurality of social distancing violations between the plurality of occupants; generate a first graphic element indicating proportions of time that an occupant of the plurality of occupants has spent in a plurality of locations of the building; generate a second graphic element indicating proportions of social distancing violations between the occupant and each the plurality of occupants; generate one or more third graphic elements that each indicate a proportion of social distancing violations between the occupant and each of the plurality of occupants at one location of the plurality of locations of the building; and generate a user interface including the first graphic element, the second graphic element, and the one or more third graphic elements.

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9. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more occupants include a first occupant and a second occupant; wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to: generate a table based on social distancing violations and the occupancy data, the table including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, wherein the plurality of rows each indicate an occupant of the plurality of occupants and the plurality of columns include: a first column indicating a total time that each of the plurality of occupants have spent within the building; a second column indicating a total amount of time that each of the plurality of occupants have spent engaging in the social distancing violations within the building; a third column indicating a ratio between the total time that each of the plurality of occupants have spent within the building and the total amount of time that each of the plurality of occupants have spent engaging in the social distancing violations within the building; a fourth column including an indication of a number of users that each user has performed a social distancing violation with; and a fifth column indicating a number of spaces that each user has performed a social distancing violation within.

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10. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to: receive an indication of infection risk levels associated with a plurality of areas of the building; receive a starting location of a user within the building and a destination location within the building from a user device; receive a risk tolerance level from the user device; generate, based on the infection risk levels associated with the plurality of areas of the building, a route through the building from the starting location to the destination location that avoids one or more high risk areas of the building or passes through the one or more high risk areas of the building based on the risk tolerance level; and cause a user interface to display the route through the building.

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11. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to: determine occupancy levels in each space of a plurality of spaces of the building over a historical time period based on the occupancy data; and generate a heat map that that indicates historical utilization of each space of the plurality of spaces over the historical time period.

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12. The building system of claim 11 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to schedule building sanitization for the plurality of spaces of the building based on the heat map.

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13. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to: generate a user score for one occupant of the plurality of occupants based on one or more parameters, the one or more parameters indicating a number of social distancing violations associated with the one occupant; and cause a user device to display the user score for the one occupant.

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14. The building system of claim 13 , wherein the one or more parameters include at least one of: a roster adherence parameter indicating whether the one occupant has followed a roster schedule; social distancing violations parameter indicating the number of social distancing violations associated with the one occupant; a training awareness parameter indicating social distancing training that the one occupant has completed; health parameters indicating health characteristics of the one occupant; a supplies requisition parameter indicating health supplies that the one occupant has acquired; a lone worker duress parameter indicating whether the one occupant has triggered a lone worker response request; or an infection level parameter indicating infection levels in a geographic area associated with a residence of the one occupant.

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15. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the building system further comprises: the occupant tracking system, wherein the occupant tracking system comprises: a plurality of transceivers each located within a space of the building, wherein the plurality of transceivers are configured to communicate with a plurality of badges to detect what space of the building the plurality of badges are located within; and the plurality of badges, wherein each badge of the plurality of badges is carried by one occupant of the plurality of occupants and includes an identifier linked to the one occupant.

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16. The building system of claim 15 , wherein a first badge of the plurality of badges is configured to: wirelessly send a first identifier of the first badge to a second badge of the plurality of badges in response to the first badge being within a particular distance from the second badge; wirelessly receive a second identifier of the second badge from the second badge in response to the first badge being within the particular distance from the second badge; store a contact event in a memory device of the first badge, the contact event including the first identifier and the second identifier; and wirelessly communicate the contact event to a transceiver of the plurality of transceivers in response to the first badge being within another particular distance from the transceiver.

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17. The building system of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of transceivers include a transceiver that is mounted on a power outlet and is plugged into the power outlet, wherein the plurality of transceivers communicate with the plurality of badges via a first wireless communication protocol and communicate with the one or more processors via a second wireless communication protocol; wherein the plurality of badges include a battery and a wireless radio, wherein the battery is configured to power the wireless radio.

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18. A method comprising: receiving, by a processing circuit, occupancy data of a plurality of occupants from an occupant tracking system, the occupancy data indicating locations of the plurality of occupants within a building space of a building; determining, by the processing circuit, based on the occupancy data, whether one or more occupants of the plurality of occupants have violated a social distancing policy that reduces a spread of an infectious disease within the building based on the locations of at least two of the plurality of occupants, the social distancing policy based on one or more characteristics of the building space; performing, by the processing circuit, one or more operations to improve compliance with the social distancing policy within the building in response to a determination that the one or more occupants have violated the social distancing policy; determining, by the processing circuit, a number of occupants in a first space of a plurality of spaces of the building based on the occupancy data; determining, by the processing circuit, whether the number of occupants in the first space of the plurality of spaces is greater than or less than one or more levels, wherein the one or more levels indicate underutilization of a space, normal utilization of a space, or over utilization of a space based on a size of the first space of the plurality of spaces; and generating, by the processing circuit, a building layout interface that indicates the plurality of spaces and whether the first space is underutilized, over utilized, or is normally utilization.

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19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising: generating, by the processing circuit, a space score for one space of a plurality of spaces of the building based on one or more parameters, the one or more parameters indicating a number of social distancing violations that have occurred within the one space; and causing, by the processing circuit, a user device to display the space score for the one space.

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20. The method of claim 18 , wherein performing, by the processing circuit, the one or more operations to improve compliance with the social distancing policy comprising: adding a social distancing alert to a list of active social distancing alerts in the building; and causing a building monitoring interface to display the list of active social distancing alerts.

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21. The method of claim 18 , wherein the one or more occupants include a first occupant and a second occupant; wherein the method further comprises: generating one or more trends that trend a plurality of social distancing violations over time; and causing a user interface to include the one or more trends.

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22. The method of claim 18 , wherein the one or more occupants include a first occupant and a second occupant; wherein the method further comprises: recording, by the processing circuit, a social distancing violation between the first occupant and the second occupant with a plurality of social distancing violations between the plurality of occupants; generating, by the processing circuit, a first graphic element indicating proportions of time that an occupant of the plurality of occupants has spent in a plurality of locations of the building; generating, by the processing circuit, a second graphic element indicating proportions of social distancing violations between the occupant and each the plurality of occupants; generating, by the processing circuit, one or more third graphic elements that each indicate a proportion of social distancing violations between the occupant and each of the plurality of occupants at one location of the plurality of locations of the building; and generating, by the processing circuit, a user interface including the first graphic element, the second graphic element, and the one or more third graphic elements.

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23. One or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: receive occupancy data of a plurality of occupants from an occupant tracking system, the occupancy data indicating locations of the plurality of occupants within a building space of a building; determine, based on the occupancy data, whether one or more occupants of the plurality of occupants have violated a social distancing policy that reduces a spread of an infectious disease within the building based on the locations of at least two of the plurality of occupants, the social distancing policy based on one or more characteristics of the building space; perform one or more operations to improve compliance with the social distancing policy within the building in response to a determination that the one or more occupants have violated the social distancing policy; determine occupancy levels in a plurality of spaces of the building over a historical time period based on the occupancy data; and schedule building sanitization for the plurality of spaces of the building based on the occupancy levels.

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24. The one or more memory devices of claim 23 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to perform the one or more operations to improve compliance with the social distancing policy by: adding a social distancing alert to a list of active social distancing alerts in the building; and causing a building monitoring interface to display the list of active social distancing alerts.

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Publication Date

June 21, 2022

Inventors

Edward Gerard Mc Namara
James Callanan
Tim Murphy
Robert Artur Dubisz
Matthew Breed Myung-Sun Scott
Amit Kumar
Sarah O'Connell
Rachel D. M. Ellerman
Vikas Sharma
Sourabh Taranath Joshi
Akshay Chavan

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